A little about JET...

The James E. Tobin Library 1955 - Present

History

In September of 1955 Molloy Catholic College for Women opened its library's doors to 42 students starting their freshmen year. At that time, the library was located in a mansion that was the original home of Molloy College.

The James E Tobin "JET" library supports the College mission as well as the goals of students and faculty by providing an environment conducive to academic learning. The Library has supported a wide variety of undergraduate programs for over half a century, graduate programs for more than a decade and Doctoral Programs for the last several years.

General

Located on the second floor of Kellenberg Hall, The James E. Tobin "JET" Library is open 84 hours per week, with extended hours offered during finals. Daily hours of operation are available on the Library home page.

Reference librarians and virtual Chat services (Ask-a-Librarian) are available during these hours for research assistance to anyone on or off campus. Degreed librarians are always available to provide individualized assistance to students and faculty and support three shifts across multiple service points and locations.

Students or faculty from any location are welcome to take advantage of the library's instructional services by requesting group or individualized instruction sessions with a librarian by submitting an online form. Virtual one-on-one sessions are also available for online or hybrid students.

Collections

Molloy's ID card serves as the library borrowing card and the same username and password used for Canvas or email provides off campus access to an extensive collection of electronic resources.

Beyond the library's physical collection of books, media and periodicals, it also provides 24x7 access to hundreds of thousands of eBooks as well as full text to millions of articles or streaming media contained within numerous subscription databases. and accessible via the library's homepage. The library also provides a rich assortment of research guides that support undergraduate and graduate programs, specific disciplines and even particularly unique assignments.

In order to showcase the works of students and faculty, the library launched a Digital Commons in 2017. Any school, division, department or faculty member is welcome to contribute published works, newsletters, conference events, including student submissions, in virtually any format. Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are also housed here.

There is a fully automated system for faculty to place materials on reserve, making them readily available to large numbers of students to use within a limited time period. In order to obtain materials that may be either unavailable or not held in the collection, students and faculty can request books and articles via Molloy's Interlibrary Loan system, or leverage the library's Research Loan Program (RLP) to reserve and retrieve books from one of over 100 locally participating institutions.

Facilities

The JET Library serves as the primary facility and is located on the main Rockville Centre Campus in the heart of Kellenberg Hall. The first floor of the library provides designated areas for quiet and group study that include tables to accommodate small groups, single stations for laptops and twenty-eight carrels for private study.

There are twelve research computers in the Main Reference room of the library and three library instruction labs on premises. Two of the labs offer a total of thirty-eight computers that are available for student use when library classes are not in session. Two high performance scanners are also available, one located in the main reading room and the other in the Education Resource Center on the first floor.

The library's Patron Services area contains physical reserve and interlibrary loan materials, print journals and houses a wide range of educational videos and DVDs. The Rochelle Sager Media Center is also located here and provides access to video, audio and microfilm equipment as well as eight all-in-one computers for DVD viewing and six VHS compatible players with reservable space for up to fourteen individuals to view media as a group.

Outside of the JET Library, reference services are available in the Information Commons, located on the second floor of the Public Square building. This facility houses multiple-use, student-friendly spaces with readily available technology and support services that encourage inquiry via socialization as well as provides a convenient informal meeting ground for teacher-student and peer mentoring. The Information Commons offers forty computers, scanning and color printing capabilities as well as four study rooms that students can reserve in advance via an online system. A Health Sciences Librarian is embedded on site several hours a week in the Barbara H. Hagan School of Nursing. Lastly, the Suffolk Extension Center in Farmingdale, NY has a library facility that has research computers, tables for group study and reference services during fall and spring semesters. Available PCs for any location can be checked remotely via JET's Find an Open Computer system.